Parallel Verses

The Emphasized Bible

But, an empty person, will get sense, when, a wild ass's colt, is born a man!

New American Standard Bible

An idiot will become intelligent
When the foal of a wild donkey is born a man.

King James Version

For vain man would be wise, though man be born like a wild ass's colt.

Holman Bible

But a stupid man will gain understanding
as soon as a wild donkey is born a man!

International Standard Version

An empty-headed person will gain understanding when a wild donkey is born a human being!"

A Conservative Version

But vain man is void of understanding. Yea, man is born [as] a wild donkey's colt.

American Standard Version

But vain man is void of understanding, Yea, man is born as a wild ass's colt.

Amplified


“But a hollow (empty-headed) man will become intelligent and wise
[Only] when the colt of a wild donkey is born as a man.

Bible in Basic English

And so a hollow-minded man will get wisdom, when a young ass of the field gets teaching.

Darby Translation

Yet a senseless man will make bold, though man be born like the foal of a wild ass.

Julia Smith Translation

And man being empty will be without heart: and man will be born a wild ass's colt

King James 2000

For a vain man will be wise, when a man is born a wild donkey's colt.

Lexham Expanded Bible

But {an empty-headed person} will get understanding when a wild donkey's colt is born [as] a human being.

Modern King James verseion

For foolish man would be wise, and man is born a wild ass's colt.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

A vain body exalteth himself, and man, newborn, is like a wild ass's colt.

NET Bible

But an empty man will become wise, when a wild donkey's colt is born a human being.

New Heart English Bible

An empty-headed man becomes wise when a man is born as a wild donkey's colt.

Webster

For vain man would be wise, though man is born like a wild ass's colt.

World English Bible

An empty-headed man becomes wise when a man is born as a wild donkey's colt.

Youngs Literal Translation

And empty man is bold, And the colt of a wild ass man is born.

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
נבב 
Nabab 
Usage: 4

man
אישׁ 
'iysh 
Usage: 692

would be wise
לבב 
Labab 
Usage: 5

אדם 
'adam 
Usage: 541

be born
ילד 
Yalad 
Usage: 497

פּרה פּרא 
Pere' 
Usage: 10

References

Easton

Ass

Fausets

Hastings

Morish

Ass

Watsons

Ass

Context Readings

God Can Do As He Pleases

11 For, he, knoweth men of falsity, and seeth iniquity, and him that doth not diligently consider. 12 But, an empty person, will get sense, when, a wild ass's colt, is born a man! 13 If, thou, hast prepared thy heart, and wilt spread forth, unto him, thy hands -



Cross References

Job 39:5-8

Who hath sent forth the Wild Ass free? And, the bands of the swift-runner, who hath loosed?

Psalm 73:22

But, I, was brutish, and could not perceive, Like the beasts, had I become before thee.

Ecclesiastes 3:18

Said, I, in my heart, as concerning the sons of men, That God was minded to prove them, - and that they might see, that they were beasts, of themselves.

Job 5:13

Who captureth the wise in their own craftiness, yea the headlong counsel of the crooked:

Job 6:5

Doth the wild ass bray over grass? Or loweth the ox over his fodder?

Job 12:2-3

Of a truth, ye, are the people, and, with you, wisdom, will die.

Job 15:14

What is a mortal, that he should be pure? or that righteous should be one born of a woman?

Job 28:28

And said to the son of earth, Lo! the reverence of the Lord, that, is wisdom, and, to avoid evil, is understanding.

Psalm 51:5

Lo! in iniquity, was I brought forth, And, in sin, did my mother conceive me.

Psalm 62:9-10

Surely, vanity, are men of low degree, Deception, men of high degree, - In the balances, they go up, They, are made of vanity, altogether.

Psalm 92:6

A man that is brutish, cannot know, And, dullard, cannot discern this: -

Proverbs 30:2-4

Surely, more brutish, am, I, than any man, nor doth, the understanding of a son of earth, pertain to me;

Jeremiah 2:24

A wild ass, taught of the desert, In the desire of her soul, she snuffeth the wind, In her occasion, who can turn her back? None who seek her, will weary themselves, In her month, they shall find her!

Romans 1:22

Professing to be wise, they were made foolish,

Romans 12:16

The same thing, one to another regarding, - not the lofty things regarding, but, by the lowly, being led along. Be not getting presumptuous in your own opinion:

1 Corinthians 3:18-20

Let no one be deceiving himself: - if anyone imagineth himself to be wise among you, in this age, let him become foolish, that he may become wise;

Ephesians 2:3

Among whom also, we all, had our behaviour, at one time, in the covetings of our flesh, doing the things desired by the flesh and the mind, and were children, by nature, of anger - even as the rest, -

James 2:20

But art thou willing to learn, O empty man! that, faith, apart from works, is, idle?

James 3:13-17

Who is wise and well-instructed-among you? Let him show, out of his comely behaviour, his works, in meekness of wisdom.

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